Programme
in:The
Brockway Hall: first left off main corridorSummary
2014  2013

11.00am

Maestro Manuel Rufino -
Indigenous Healing ArtsMaestro Manuel is a recognized
elder in the Taino tradition, a spiritual guide,
gifted ceremonial leader and teacher of sacred
initiatic traditions of the world. He is also
an artist, certified iridologist, naturo-therapist
and vegetarian chef. Guided by his teacher, Maestro
Domingo Dias Porta, he has been following the
trails o indigenous healing arts for over 38 years.
Currently, Maestro Manuel travels around the world
sharing initiatic traditions, creating communities,
leading workshops, lectures, sweat lodges and
healing rituals. He regularly visits USA,
Canada, England, Poland, Spain, Peru, Mexico.

Maestro
Manuel Rufino was born in the Dominican
Republic. Training began as a child, when at age
6 he started learning from local healers of the
Caribbean, Arawak and Taino. When he was 17 years
old he met his spiritual guide,Maestro Domingo Dias
Porta. Following his instructions, Maestro Manuel
entered the Shaolin Temple training for five years,
where he practiced the disciplines of monks. After
the occurrence, for the next 27 years he continued
to explore the traditions of the Mayan, Aztec, Toltec,
Huichol, Navajo, Shipibo. Maestro Jose Manuel Estrada
gave him a blessing in the ancient tradition of
initiation which has been passed from teacher to
student for thousands of years and also introduced
him to Yoga. For 25 years he has been teaching
Hatha Yoga and Yoga Maya. He was the founder of
several pioneering vegetarian restaurants and health
food stores in Puerto Rico, Mexico, St. Louis, Los
Angeles, Chicago and New York City.Contact:

11.30

Joel Gazdar - Wild & Raw: Why Wild Foods
Matter and How to Incorporate them into Everyday
Lifestyle.Joel will guide the audience through
an upliftingly inspiring holistic approach to nutrition
and wellbeing and share the tips for long-term success
in establishing an authentic healthy lifestyle that
works for you.

Joel
Gazdarhas created raw eateries and juiceries
across three continents, whilst apprenticing
and volunteering with many teachers and maestros across
various disciplines. He synthesises these into new
levels of embodiment, which he has been teaching to
thousands of others, centring around the benefits
of a closer relationship and creative co-operation
with the infinite intelligence of the thriving, functional,
bio-diverse eco-systems of nature. Joel is a lifelong
devotee and pioneer of all things wild, wonderful,
wellbeing-based, enjoying oneself and experiencing
ecstatic consciousness through unconditional celebration
and appreciation, and unlocking our infinite potential
through asking potent questions, as well as being
a student of all the alchemical paths of the world.
He has spent over a 15 years immersed in the raw food
movement and has rich experience as a smoothie master,
workshop facilitator, international speaker, chef
and entrepreneur.
Contact: www.wildfoodcafe.com
 www.facebook.com/WildFoodCafe

12noon

Questions & Answer Session with Maestro Manuel
Rufino and Joel Gazdar

12.30pm

Sistahintheraw - Women's Health through
Raw Living FoodsBuilding on last years contribution,
Anita will demonstate and share a a raw Carribbean
smoothie - coome and explore the
gifts of delectable raw Caribbean fruit and vegetables,
and enjoy Anita's unique perspective about
a holistic raw, plant-based lifestyle, based on
her African and Indian Caribbean heritage and
understanding.
Sistahintheraw (Anita McKenzie) is
also an Interfaith Minister, Spiritual Counsellor
and meditation teacher and offers an holistic
framework for supporting personal transition to
wellbeing.Contact: 07941 525086  www.rawsoulfood.co.uk

1pm

Theresa Webb (Kitchen Buddy)
- RawVegan Diet, Women's
Health, and Natural Remedies for Menopause Support
Demo of how to make a Rainbow Salad using sprouting
mung beans salad. Theresa will also share her knowledge
of  Herbal medicine& remedies  Anti-aging
recipes (foods to heal)  Strategies for avoiding
wheat, dairy & sugar  The importance and
benefits of plant-based Enzymes her top five
herbal remedies to achieve and maintain Hormonal
Balance at any age. This session will be of particular
interest to women, but everyone welcome!Theresa Webb Dip.Nut. BANT is Nutritional
Therapist, a Naturopathic Medicine practitioner,
principal teacher and chef at Kitchen Buddy, writer,
organic food and designer raw chocolate producer.
She is co-leader for the South London Dance of Gratitude
and Awareness (DOGA) live drumming and dance community
and is a children's yoga teacher.
Contact: Kitchen Buddy Culinary Courses and Raw
Chocolatier - 07734 166 738 - www.kitchenbuddy.eu

Lia Aquila
has been a natural health practitioner and lecturer
in health and complementary therapies for over 12
years, and 3 years ago trained as a raw food chef
and educator and has since been giving talks, workshops
and retreats. Lia loves sharing and inspiring people
to feel better and really enjoy nutritious raw vegan
food. She went from vegetarian to vegan and then
discovered the power of raw food after suffering
from a stress related illness. Lia had all the symptoms
of primary progressive MS, 2 stone overweight, and
suffered from IBS and asthma. She started introducing
raw food and lots of 'superfoods' in to her diet
and also exercising regularly. Within 7 months she
was symptom free, had lost 2 stone, and competed
in her first triathlon! This rapid transformation
sparked a passion to share the experience of the
healing power of nutrition to help other people.
Lia is now delivers workshops, parties and coaches
people in how the change transform their health,
and she is also the founder of Raw Fest, the UK's
raw food and healing festival.Contact: Raw Nature: 020 3542 3441  www.theberkeleyclinic.com

2pm

Jill Swyers - Hippocrates Health in a Balanced
Way
- Avoiding Downfalls When Changing Food LifestyleThis talk is about Maintaining a
Healthy Balance when Transitioning to Living Foods
with Guidance, and How to Integrate Living and Raw
Foods Nutrition "One Step at a Time".
Jill Swyers is an Hippocrates Health
Educator/ Living Food Nutrition Living Foods Consultant/
Speaker/ Practitioner.Contact: Living Foods for Health - www.jillswyers.com

3pm

Kyle Vialli
- The Truth About NutritionIn a world where 1001 so-called experts
are giving completely opposing advice about what constitutes
"the ideal diet for mankind", today we will
place some universality back into the proceedings.
Through the lens of science and philosophy Kyle's
exclusive Q & A session will explore some of the
fundamental axioms of good nutrition, whilst highlighting
some of the most common pitfalls. Warning! - this
lecture contains cutting-edge information that you
might not be expecting.

Kyle Vialli B.Y.S.A,
B.A (First Class Hons.) is an internationally acclaimed
Vitality coach and Nutritionist. His specialty is
a wide-spectrum understanding of health and wellbeing,
with specific focus on food. Kyle is an independent
researcher who works alongside other integrative
spokespersons in the health and wellbeing arena.
His natural passions are further nourished by his
studies in philosophy, media, culture and the sciences.
Kyle has written numerous articles for wellness-minded
magazines, has been interviewed for Channel 4, Russia
Today and Icelandic Television, National and European
radio and a variety of online radio stations. Kyle
is currently writing his flagship book on the universal
principles of nutrition entitled What In The World
Am I Supposed To Eat? Over the last 8 years Kyle
has helped 1000s of people attain increased
levels of vitality and clarity during one-on-one
consultations and seminars. Daily he continues to
hone his understanding of the species, not just
in regards to what can go wrong with it through
disorder and disease, but by what can go right
with it through the horizons of human potential
and possibility.Contact: www.kylevialli.com

4pm

Fiona Maguire - Release your emotional baggage,
to fully be and express who you are in the world.Do you feel heavy? Are you holding
onto trauma and emotions that do not serve you? I
will teach you how to release your emotional baggage
and the conditioning that holds you back. In this
fun and interactive workshop you will learn exercises
to clear your energy and become more present in the
world. We will explore ìThe Key to Awarenessî
process and Energetic NLP. You will leave the workshop
with more energy, focus and clarity. In other words
you will feel more like yourself, maybe for the first
time ever! Become the love that you are and express
yourself fully in the world.Fiona has studied Psychology, different
religions / spiritual paths and many different therapies.
Fiona has worked in the NHS and for Social Services.
She has brought her expertise and experience together
to create "The Key to Awareness": a practical
step by step process to bring the freedom of awareness
into your everyday life.Contact: Real Energy  07929 589923 
www.RealEnergy4All.com

5pm

Chris
Philpott - Green Spirituality& the Environmental
Crisis - Changing lifestyles to help People &
Planet.Describing the spiritual causes of
the current environmental crisis by referring to the
13 years research I carried out on 12 different spiritual
traditions and their green aspects as well as global
environmental problems such as climate change, water
shortages, air pollution, species loss, and food shortages.
I shall try and inspire the audience to adopt spiritual
values in their lives to contribute to solving some
of the environmental problems, especially through
referring to the work of eco villages and the websites
found in my book. I had the idea of writing a book
about environmental issues in February 1972 after
watching a programme about the Club of Rome Report.
The report stated that the planet faced major environmental
problems in the future. In 2012 Chris undertook an
Eco Tour of North America, giving 25 talks to diverse
groups including the U.N. members at the U.N Church
in New York, Eco Village members, Sierra Club members,
Transition towns and Christian, Quaker and Buddhist
groups. He will share his experiences in the talk
and refer to inspiring Inter-Faith projects in America
and some successful Eco Villages he visited.

Chris
PhilpottChris has been a Green
Activist and engaged with the green movement for three
decades. He has campaigned on local and national green
issues such as recycling and climate change, and has
been involved in organizing community activities relating
to whole food, recycling, gardening and conservation,
Local Agenda 21, LETS, Transition Towns, meditation,
interfaith and
green spirituality. The idea for this book came when
he created the Green Spirituality Working Group in
the U.K. Green Party. This book, a direct outcome
of green activism combined with spiritual practice
(Buddhist), took 13 years to research and write. He
is also an experienced and enthusiastic performer,
his skills include public speaking and clowning, as
well as writing and performing Eco music with a band
appropriately named the Eco Worriers. Chris travelled
extensively in India during 2002 and interviewed one
hundred and thirty Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Muslim, and
Christian and Buddhist spiritual leaders during his
stay. During the same year, he travelled to the United
Nations World Conference on Sustainability in Johannesburg,
where he shared his views on Green Spirituality with
other delegates, and also discussed the need to bring
more Spirituality into the work of the United Nations.
He has given talks on Green Spirituality at the U.K.
Green Party National conferences, the Big Green Gathering,
the Climate Camps, the Campaign against Climate Change
Forums and the Birmingham Inter-faith group. He is
available for workshops on green spirituality. Contact: Chris Philpott  01926 335736 
07503 748369  www.greenspirituality.org

6pm

Pause for re-arranging
the space

6.30pm

Alicia Davies
- Earth Song Sound HealingI would like to offer a sound healing
session using the Earth Gong. Tuned to the frequency
of our planet, the Earth gong is grounding, healing,
and nurturing, and is a great way to re-establish
a natural connection to Earth, something which is
increasingly difficult to maintain due to our modern
lifestyles, which causes a sense of disconnection
and disharmony. The Earth Gong Bath starts softly,
and builds to an almighty crescendo - a tsunami of
sound - that clears blocks to emotional, physical,
and spiritual well-being, bringing them up for healing.
It is also deeply relaxing!Alicia Davies trained in Gong Sound
Healing with gong guru Mark Swan, who trained with
Don Conreaux. She runs regular one-to-one gong sound
meditation sessions, and conducts regular fortnightly
group gong baths at Zen Yoga in Camberwell. She is
currently working on retreats to help people reconnect
to Earth and to find a more natural way of being that
is in tune with nature.Contact: 07798 635566  www.earthsongsoundhealing.com

7.30pm

HariPyari
and Michelle - KIRTAN: Heart-Centred ChantingKirtan is the yogic practice of singing
from the heart. Dropping down out of our busy minds,
we settle our focus in the heart centre, where, in
all of us there is love, compassion and beauty; and
we use our voices to express that love. Together we
will sing simple Sanskrit Mantras (chants in a powerful
ancient language), that have a profoundly healing
effect on our subconscious and our energetic system.
You can join in singing, dancing, clapping or simply
basking in the sound. Kirtan is fun, it feels good,
and brings one into a place of peace, wellbeing and
blissful joy.

HariPyari
has fallen in love with the path of Bhakti Yoga (of
which chanting is a key element), and organised the
UKÌs first ever Bhakti Music Festival (in August
2011), which brought devotional musical practices
from various traditions together as one , in the spirit
of universal love and devotion. She leads Kirtan and
Shakti Dance in London & around the UK. Her practice
has been influenced by many teachers and traditions,
and she is highly grateful for the people who have
inspired and supported her. HariPyari feels incredibly
blessed to have found this divine practice and be
able to share it with others.Contact: HariPyari - 07734593284 - www.naturalmysticbhajans.co.uk

8.30pm

Illumina
- Silence, Sacred Sound & MantraTogether we will all create the blissful
states of Healing and Celebration using the mediums
of Sacred Sound, Chant and Mantra to reconnect directly
to the Still, Silent Presence of our Divinity.Illumina are
Lila Cohen and Sean Shokat - two divinely
inspired musicians who hold a space of Healing and
Celebration using the mediums of Sacred Sound,Chant
an d Mantra to reconnect directly to the Still, Silent
Presence of our Divinity. Contact: 07931 192867
 www.illuminamusic.co.uk

9.30pm

Siri Sadhana Kaur - Mantras for the SoulVibrate the cosmos, the cosmos
shall clear the path- Yogi Bhajan. We will chant
devotional songs, mantra and use celestial communications
as taught by Yogi Bhajan to surrender to our soul
and universal consciousness.Siri Sadhana Kaur performed internationally
developing in voice work, theatre, music and movement,
studying in Paris with the innovative movement master
Jacques Lecoq. She shares Dance,Yoga, and leads
an accapela choir with world and mantra music. Siri
is an approved KRI associate trainer and student
of Shiv Charan Singh and as part of the Karam Kriya
School team in London delivers the level 1 Aquarian
teacher training. She recorded 4 music and mantra
CD Alokas Grace. Sacred Nectar and Song of Soul
are available at the festival and as downloads.